After last year’s blockbuster $104 million sale of downtown Austin condo community the Railyard to Los Angeles investment firm Karlin Real Estate, we knew it was only a matter of time before the site’s redevelopment — in part simply because it’s a big piece of land downtown, roughly 1.6 acres of low-rise residential units spanning two half-blocks on both…
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East Austin’s Centro Offices Will Transform Nearly Two Full Blocks
Centro, a mixed-use development by local firm Riverside Resources set to bring five floors of office and retail space to the so-called “Saltillo District” of East Austin, is still working its way through the city’s permitting process — meaning the project technically exists mostly on people’s computers at this point. But looking at renderings doesn’t really…
At Third and Brazos, an Apartment Tower Plan Respects Its Elders
A 44-floor downtown apartment tower at the southeast corner of East Third and Brazos Streets by Houston-based multifamily developer the Hanover Company has cleared its first hurdle on the long road from the drawing board to reality. At a meeting earlier this week, Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission approved the certificate of appropriateness for the demolition of…
Downtown Austin’s Block 87 Tower Returns With a Freshened-Up Design
A towering future for the full block at 701 Trinity Street bound by Neches, Trinity, Seventh and Eighth Streets could finally take shape, after years of speculation and modifications to a challenging design in a challenging location. What’s known as Block 87 in the original downtown Austin plan, now home only to a parking lot, was originally…
Windsor Park’s First Shopping Center Looks Ready to Grow. But How?
Windsor Village, the first shopping center opened in the midcentury Windsor Park neighborhood of East Austin in 1960, could someday host a transformative redevelopment of its property into a major residential and retail complex courtesy of prominent Houston-based commercial real estate firm Transwestern. That’s at least the admittedly murky impression from pre-development documents related to the project,…
Timbercreek Redevelopment Could Bring 550 Apartments to Bouldin
The redevelopment of a 1970s-era South Austin apartment community could bring up to 550 new apartment units to the Bouldin Creek neighborhood, only a stone’s throw from the city’s growing South Central Waterfront district. The proposal, outlined in a briefing by Austin’s Planning and Zoning Department at a meeting of the city’s Environmental Commission earlier this week, will…